The dream project is a mountain. Today’s job is one rock. Chop the mountain into rocks.

A goal held at full size is not something you can act on, only something you can feel underqualified for. The whole of it never fits into a day, so looking at the whole produces paralysis rather than direction. Broken up, the same thing becomes a series of ordinary tasks, none of them intimidating on its own.

Name the single smallest piece you could complete today and do only that. Keep the big version somewhere you rarely look, and work from the list of small pieces instead.